Re: [dev] Re: Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:47:06 +0300

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Fernando C.V. <ferkiwi_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> But then on second though, since it's a separate process there would
> be problems with environment variables, and this might not have an
> easy solution.

    Don't worry, even a simple `grep ... | while read l ; do ... ; x=a
; done ; echo $x` wouldn't work, because the `while` in the pipe is in
a different process. (You'll have to do something like `while read l ;
do ... ; x=b ; done <( grep ... )` to work.)

    Ciprian.
Received on Sat Jun 01 2013 - 15:47:06 CEST